Homestead Certificate No. 1146 Application: 1622 WHEREAS, There has been deposited in the General land Office of the United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, Whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May 1862 "To Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain" and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of JOHN S. BUSHONG has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the Northeast Quarter of Section Nineteen in Township One South of Range Thirty-four East of the New Mexico Meridian, New Mexico, containing one hundred and sixty acres, according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land returned to the General land Office by the Surveyor General: NOW KNOW YE, That there is, therefore granted by the United States unto the said JOHN S. BUSHONG the tract of Land above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said JOHN S. BUSHONG and to his heirs and assigns forever; subject to any vested and accrued water rights for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, and also subject to the rights of the proprietor of a vein or lode to extract and removed his ore therefrom, should the same be found to penetrate or intersect the premises hereby granted, as provided by law. And there is reserved from the Lands hereby granted, a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the seal of the General land Office to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second. By the President: THEODORE ROOSEVELT By N. W. Young, Secretary H. W. Sanford, Recorder of the GLO ------------------ This tract of land can be seen of the following website: www.glorecords.blm.gov Instructions to follow in separate post. ------------------ Researched and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong